Sure someone could follow you back to your room in a casino hotel too.but security is more tight atleast the monitoring as opposed to those who have to leave the property. I recall a story where two Africans were followed back to their hotel some distance away and robbed at gunpoint and tied up. it seems that most serious gamblers like a hotel/casino as opposed to having to walk outside and jump in their ride with their loot.
I wasnt trying to imply that they are roach motels or anything like that but. There must be shuttles from the hotels on Pratt street. That Holiday Inn is not going to attract the kind of gamblers the city wants. The decisions made here are always half baked and half assed. I never understood why the area around the Horseshoe casino wasn't better developed. The Aloft, Element, Hampton Inn, Hilton Gardens and a Homewood Suites. Actually there are some nice hotels near Maryland Live.